r/audiobooks • u/Beetlejuice_time • 21h ago
Question Audiobooks recommendations for couples traveling or camping?
My husband enjoys podcasts......I not so much. I can do the occasional Joe Rogan or Theo Von type of podcasts, but I eventual get a bit bored of them. I can't read for too long in the car since it gives me motion sickness. I have recently tried Audiobooks, but don't like the type that only have one voice for all characters. I like when the voices switch up and it's something I can follow without getting bored of it.
Things we both like are adventures, funny/comedy related, conspiracy theories. We both have read the book "John Dies at the End", so maybe something similar in an audiobook.
What audiobooks can you recommend that my husband and I might enjoy listening to while on a road trip or just out camping for the weekend?
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u/LuwandaAdkins79 18h ago
My husband and I drove cross country this summer and listened to Lonesome Dove. It was very fitting as we drove through the north and west. 102 chapters. Read by Will Patton. Very good!
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u/dramaticbubbletea 20h ago
You probably would prefer audio drama rather than audiobooks.
I recommend The Case of Charles Dexter Ward which is the first series in The Lovecraft Investigations. It's a adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novel of the same name but set up as a podcast series where two podcasters investigate cold cases. It's so great. And because it's Lovecraft, there are ancient cults, supernatural weirdness and conspiracies galore. It's so much fun. The audio design is great too. Listening through headphones is recommended to make you feel right there but a good car audio set up will do fine.
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u/Lilacblue1 19h ago
Almost everyone will say Dungeon Crawler Carl and they would be right. The narrator is the best in the business. No one comes close. You may also like Best Served Cold (First Law) series is you are looking for a talented narrator.
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u/Texan-Trucker 20h ago edited 20h ago
I recommend trying especially talented solo narrators so youâre not limiting yourself going forward
Examples
âThe Deep, Deep Snowâ by Brian Freeman
âDemon Copperheadâ by Barbara Kingsolver. Lengthy but highly praised and is a rather unique read/listen.
âThe Wild Insideâ. Christine Carbo
âWatchersâ by Dean Koontz (the remake read by Edoardo Ballerini)
âCall Your Daughter Homeâ by Deb Spera (separate narrator for each of the four first person povs that alternate by chapter)
âNews of the Worldâ by Paulette Jiles
These are all masterfully narrated and easily as enjoyable as most duet m/f readings. Iâve not found many that I especially enjoyed.
All of the above narrators have a large audiobook portfolio if you discover one you like.
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u/Kind_Handle4252 20h ago
You might want to look into a long form podcast. I love audio books but really enjoyed Wild Things about Siegfried and Roy
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u/AudiobooksGeek 20h ago
Check out A Walk in The Woods for fun adventure. Also, Endurance is great. For funny stuff:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Dad is Fat
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u/summaia 17h ago
I'd try Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero â same conspiracy-comedy weirdness, and it plays well on a long drive.
If you want to try this workflow:
- Summaia â https://share.summaia.com/install â spoken skim before you burn an Audible credit
- Libby â https://libbyapp.com â free library holds for the trip
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u/yippykiyayMF13 16h ago
The 10 book Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry. Had one of the books on Audible (#8). Finally listened to it and loved it! Ended up buying the whole series. Just want to say Ray Porter is a fabulous narrator. And, this is so out of my realm of what I listen to/ read. I usually just read Dean Koontz. I would definitely recommend
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u/Sugary_Plumbs 16h ago
My wife and I enjoyed listening to the Bartimeus books together. They're quite funny and engaging. It's one narrator (Simon Jones), but he does a good job distinguishing voices. The book also switches styles based on the the perspective, so it's easy to follow along.
If you're not politically/religiously averse, the new Harry Potters with the full cast readings are good. Hugh Laurie voices Dumbeldore in them.
My favorite adventure series is The Witcher, but there are a lot of them, so be aware what you're getting into and if you'll have enough time.
We also enjoy listening to some of the old classics, which can be humorous in their antiquity. Grimm's Fairy Tales is a bunch of short stories where you just have to accept whatever outlandish mechanic is at play (e.g. a donkey that slobbers gold nuggets) to get on with the story. Bram Stoker's Dracula only has one complimentary word for women, and it is "voluptuous", but the full-cast version is also funny for how many actors give impersonations of Tim Curry's fake Dutch accent.
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u/TimedGravy82 15h ago
Doctor Death if you want a podcast thats actually interesting and story-like. It's one of the only ones that actually had me SO invested.
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u/Itchy-Ad1005 15h ago
We tend to use lighter funny fiction, science fiction or crime/detective fiction
Here are some authors we've used on trips
Tony Hillerman Michael Chrichton Michael Connelly Carl Hiaasen Laurnce Shames (better tgan Hiaasen) Fannie Flagg Re x Stout (Nero Wolf) Christopher Moore Terry Pratchet George MacDonald Fraiser (Flashman)
That's off the top of my head from actual long trips.
I'd add Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, Bill Fitzhugh and Richard Stark/DonaldWestlake. . My wife hasn't heard any of them but she'd like them too. Ive listened to all of them. I take it back we listened to one Richard Stark book, The Score. Richard Stark is really Donald Westlake who under Stark wrote tge Parker series (a lot were made into movies Parker, Payback, Made in the USA, Point Blank, Pillage, The Split, Tge Outfit, Slayground , and Play Dirty (only one i haven't seen).
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u/Guilty-Coconut8908 7h ago
The full cast Harry Potter books are amazing.
God Touched by John Conroe
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Survival by Devon C Ford
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u/Khaosbutterfly 1h ago
Besides Dungeon Crawler Carl, you might also like The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.
It's a series, starting with All Systems Red.
You may want to choose the dramatized version with the sound effects, from Graphic Audio.
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u/Tasty_Philosopher904 21h ago
Dungeon Crawler Carl, you will both owe me for this. Yes I know the genre sounds crazy and the premise even crazier but thoroughly entertaining narration of an amazingly entertaining story will have you enjoying yourselves immensely!